pinse

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pensə/, [ˈpʰensə]

Noun

pinse c (singular definite pinsen, not used in plural form)

  1. Pentecost (Christian festival)

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpin.se/
  • Rhymes: -inse
  • Hyphenation: pìn‧se

Etymology 1

Noun

pinse

  1. plural of pinsa

Etymology 2

Verb

pinse

  1. third-person singular past historic of pingere

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

pīnse

  1. vocative masculine singular of pīnsus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Low German or German Low German pinxten

Noun

pinse f or m (definite singular pinsa or pinsen, indefinite plural pinser, definite plural pinsene)

  1. Whitsun or Pentecost (Christian festival seven weeks after Easter)
    Skal du noe i pinsen?
    Are you doing anything this Pentecost?

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Low German or German Low German pinxten

Noun

pinse f (definite singular pinsa, indefinite plural pinser, definite plural pinsene)

pinse m (definite singular pinsen, indefinite plural pinsar, definite plural pinsane)

  1. Whitsun or Pentecost (Christian festival seven weeks after Easter)

References

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 硼砂 (phêng-se, “borax”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /pinˈse/ [pɪn̪ˈsɛ]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: pin‧se

Noun

pinsé (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. borax; sodium borate (used in traditional medicine)

Further reading

  • pinse”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018